* Posts by P. Lee

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Study: Arctic warming at 'stunning' rate – highest temps in 44,000 years

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Re: While

I was just thinking the same thing.

Let's forget arguing over whether its real or not, let's forget stupid trivialities like emissions trading schemes and 5p plastic bag charges and let's forget duplicitous environmental taxes. Instead let's take some sensible precautions and power-saving measures but realise that we've outsourced manufacturing to China so its unlikely that anything we do will make an enormous difference.

Then let's think about how we deal with rising seas. Do we need to plan to shift London inland a bit? Where are the flood plains? What happens to food sources, water, electrics and communications infrastructure if seas rise.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting bored with people running around shouting that the sky is falling. Of course climatologists and researchers are going to say its a disaster - they would be unimportant (and unfunded) if it wasn't and of course the energy companies are going to say "buy more of our stuff" because that is what they do. If the scientific consensus is AGW is true, I'm not sure if publishing yet another paper about it is really what we need or just self-serving. What we need is some planning, which is really what we employ government for.

Don't crack that Mac: Almost NOTHING in new Retina MacBook Pros can be replaced

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Re: How to fix a MacBook

Of course few people are interested in the details. But even an uninterested person can save a bit of cash by (to use the tired and inaccurate car analogy) changing the oil themselves.

Batteries, RAM and disks should be easily interchangeable. I think most of us can live with a fixed CPU in a laptop.

With disks moving to short-lifespan, catastrophic failure-prone flash its unforgivable to solder them down.

I guess we now know how the "free" mavericks is being paid for.

Forget Wi-Fi, boffins get 150Mbps Li-Fi connection from a lightbulb

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Re: Potential uses but only in controlled settings.

Controlled settings are fine.

How about in office cubicles where you don't want to fiddle with physical connections and 150Mb/s to each desktop is ok. It saves sharing 802.11ac with the whole floor and having to deal with the vagaries of radio signal propagation. If you want to go Apple-esk, you could do a magnetic connector to ensure no leakage but still have no mechanical clips to snap off.

Likewise in a house you can do 150Mb/s per room with fewer problems from overlapping signals.

Last living NEANDERTHALS discovered in JERSEY – boffins

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Re: "Last living NEANDERTHALS discovered in JERSEY – boffins"

or perhaps they were just people who didn't inter-marry much with other communities.

Divorcing ICANN and the US won't break the 'net nor stop the spooks

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Re: I just don't see how this makes a difference

Upvoted because (1) is pretty sensible.

I think you missed, "don't use US commercial software." Anyone with a large financial interest in the a country can be manipulated, especially if they are trying to sell to the government.

Most of us don't have stuff the NSA is really interested in, so we're unlikely to be the target of a concerted government attack. At that point I think we go with common sense security - avoid things which can't be checked (closed source) and stick with things which can be checked, even if you aren't the one checking them. I'd run VPNs and perhaps support some proper peer-to-peer messaging.

The aim isn't really to be absolutely secure and private. It is to encourage everyone to adopt practises which make spying awkward. Do you need that Cisco VPN concentrator supporting one meeelllion tunnels or would a BSD box work nicely? Do you need failover devices for VPNs or are two tunnels just fine?

It always amazes me how much money is spent on over-spec'ed commercial stuff. Hire an enthusiastic geek and ditch all that maintenance.

Be prepared... to give heathens a badge: UK Scouts open doors to unbelievers

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Re: It's a good start.

> It is said by some that Hitler was Catholic, but there is no evidence of him practising Catholicism at any point after he left home.

On the other hand, the evidence for him practising the philosophy of Friedrich "God is dead" Nietzsche is relatively plentiful.

However, the issue is not, "who has the worst record in the past," but (if you want to be pragmatic), "What is the logical conclusion of your belief?" Are the principles which govern your behaviour logical or irrational, based on something you made up? Is a "contract with society" something which you would break if you thought you could get away with it? If not, why not?

These things are important because although individuals may be irrational in ways which disadvantage and/or benefit others, society in general will tend to the logical conclusion of the common belief. I'm happy to be corrected, but the *logical* conclusion of atheism appears to be hedonism and/or existential nihilism. I'm not sure if the New Atheists know how much amusement they offer the rest of us as we contemplate their militant nihilism, or at least it would if they weren't so wretchedly intent on force-feeding it to our children from age five.

I see little evidence of man improving in the move away from God. Having freed the slaves in the (very religious) 19th century, the rise of globalism has seen their reinstatement. We keep them out of sight (like our wars), moving the "downstairs" to China, the Philippines and Bangladesh, but that's just a longer staircase. We used to use gun-boats to enforce trade, now we use the IMF and WTO. StarTrek is a lie. We are not better people, we are not evolving. We have better tools and technology but greed and pride remain. Knowledge has increased, we can run to and fro across the whole earth but we are the same as always. Our liberal democracies rush headlong down the path of illiberalism, seeking to control all aspects of life; even redefining vocabulary where words imply values stubbornly resistant to the government-sanctioned morality. 1984 was supposed to be a parody, not a prophecy.

Apple ban win: Now you can't buy Samsung gear no one was buying

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>"Apple wanted to dictate the price they paid instead of paying the same as everyone else."

> [citation needed]

Indeed - though that was my understanding of the issue. Everyone paid 2.5% (or whatever) of retail and Apple didn't want those terms, they wanted to make make up their own.

It was Non-discriminatory, certainly, (is "fair" the same thing?) but the "reasonable" was in dispute. It was "reasonable" for Samsung's other customers but if you make a special case in order to attain "reasonable" for Apple, have you breached the "non-discriminatory"?

I'd probably normally have sided with Apple, but Apple's patent antics have cost them all benefit of the doubt from me. Samsung have been playing up too a bit, but with the state of the industry, but in my estimation, choice in each market segment is a little more important than one company amassing a few billion dollars extra.

For further silly issues between big companies, I think we need the "tennis challenge" rule. Three incorrect challenges and you have to wait five years to before you can challenge again.

MI5 boss: Snowden leaks of GCHQ methods HELPED TERRORISTS

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Re: @Miek

> A spy's lot is not a happy one ...

Actually I think that's probably correct. But that doesn't stop the cure being worse than the disease.

Azerbaijani election app announced winner before polls even opened

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Re: And still

>Nothing wrong with electronic voting in itself.

In theory. However, it makes the system easier to game and less transparent for little gain. It allows for easier evil.

Microsoft watches iPads flood into world's offices: Right, remote desktop clients. It's time

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Fine! Here is the resource costings for supporting byod...

Actually I quite like thin-client. If users are happy with rubbish front-ends, that fine by me!

You get rdp access, with web access to some apps via a captive portal.

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Re: I'm still baffled as to how anyone can do proper work on a tablet.

also, waitressing is a use-case.

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rdp desktop on a 10" screen is nice?

I'm happy to have my productivity hobbled by my two 24" desktop screens, thanks. When I go home, I'm happy to VPN and rdp from my 27" + 20" home desktop with desktop laser mouse.

I know, I'm an old fogey.

Publish your app, but I don't want a remote desktop at those resolutions thanks.

RIP charging bricks: $279 HP Chromebook 11 charges via USB

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Re: Why?

Worse - I don't want a chromebook, I want a pc laptop I can switch to being a chromebook.

Hollywood: How do we secure high-def 4K content? Easy. Just BRAND the pirates

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Does not scale

Can you imagine the traffic on the crl servers if this went mainstream?

What happens when the server goes down or the studio goes bust?

Are we really going to track every player against its owner, forever?

What happens when torrents contain md5 sums of frames or frame fragments so that it is possible to compare with other people's versions to see which bits are different?

Given the number of recent reboots, Hollywood's problem is providing original content, not protecting it.

Apple iMac 27-inch 2013: An extra hundred quid for what exactly?

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Re: Another comparison

For a Mercedes you pay for extra luxuries and performance you can use when allowed.

For Apple you pay to have less stuff... on a desktop!

I have a 2009 24" iMac which I like, but this is daft. Its still essentially a "productivity" device, since, Batman notwithstanding, mobile graphics and hi-res 27" screens do not a games-capable machine make. You may as well get a mini and separate screen.

Haswell is nice for laptops, but for a desktop, I don't really care about power saving that much. How about something innovative like a full-size Bluetooth keyboard with both backspace and delete keys?

Removing floppies and replacing them with USB was visionary. Removing DVD and hiding the USB ports is dumb. My parents have a hundred DVDs or so and I have to use my non-Mac laptop to rip them rather than the shiny new DVD-less Macbook pro. Their kit is obviously less useful than it was, which annoys me enough to not buy another iMac.

My guess is that the extra $100 is to make up for the sales lost due to the economic downturn.

Valve uncloaks prototype Steam Machine console specs

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Re: That's incredibly muscular specs.

A 680 is even better value for money. 780/Titans are useful if you have to cram GPU into a box. I looked at the 770's and decided a 25% price premium for 10% performance isn't worthwhile. Since then the 680's have dropped further.

Consoles are underpowered because they are designed to a price. My 9800 GT is underpowered but mostly due to massive resolution increases. The 680 is five times as fast. If Valve are aiming at TV screens the 780 is ridiculous. The problem is the massive range of game requirements. They'll need warnings about minimum and recommended hardware.

Having said that - it makes sense to get the drivers stable at the top end rather than target the low-end which is on its way out. Steam users are mostly PC gamers and likely to be at the higher end.

I'd like to see them get some more of the old games with mid-level requirements ported to SteamOS. Defensegrid, Lara Croft, Monkey Island - that type of thing.

British support for fracking largely unmoved by knowledge of downsides

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Re: My major fear

High energy prices?

See what happens to government debt repayments when interest rates go up.

It'll be permanent shutdown.

You put up with CRAPPY iOS 7. You can put up with Obamacare too, says prez

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Re: Palm Pilot with BMW prices

> What about The Poor? Open free clinics. Limit the care, no heart bypasses, no liver or kidney transplants.

And don't forget to Let them eat cake!

Boffins offer ROUTER DEATHLIST for software-defined network builders

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Re: “if there's got to be an upgrade, which kit do I nuke first?”

Nuke the SDN kit first.

Network configs which are totally dynamic so you can't see errors combined with absolutely must have always connectivity to an absolutely must have always functional bit of software.

What could possibly go wrong?

Atomic clocks come to your wrist

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Re: Love the extended crown

Wouldja believe that's the second biggest control rod I've ever seen?

Sony Xperia Z Ultra: The quad-core 2.2GHz MEGA SCREEN PHONDLESLAB

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Re: I wonder

Its the "anti-smuggle-into-prison" design.

Exciting MIT droplet discovery could turbocharge power plants, airships and more

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Re: Your article goes on a bit

What a drip!

Icahn to Cook: 'Buy back $150bn of Apple's stock, or tell me why you won't'

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Re: He can't think of a reason not to?

"Efficiency" in modern parlance is not "doing things while consuming fewer resources." It is "efficiency of money in making more money." Economists' models simplifying machines (processes) and cash into "resources" misleads people into thinking they are the same.

Successful companies are fiscally conservative, not chasing every dollar, but doing what they know to be profitable. I understand Woolworths made that mistake, playing the stockmarket to make use of "inefficient capital" instead of selling things and then going under when the market dropped. Apple is one of the very few tech companies which have lasted since the 70's. They know the boom-bust tech-product cycle and have been putting away cash which should see them through lean times and they keep an eye on new products to bring to market.

People and especially analysts jump on the Icahn's bandwagon because mostly they are high-frequency trading. A comment from him can bump the shareprice slightly regardless of the actual likely outcome of the buy-back. Its a secondary market in "information."

Dixons preps home 3D printer for plastic-piping punters

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Re: For my entire life all the plastic tat came from China

There are other uses. How about using it to build a mold for fancy plaster of paris thing - coving etc?

The fun starts when you get a 3D scanner.

You can use the plastic to make a mold, turn out a clay mold from that, either for clay objects or go on to metal. Yes, A factory in china is cheaper for mass production, but its probably easier to sell unique items at a local market than set up a global supply chain, or replicate something you bought where there was only one.

WD embraces C word* and hews HDD handles from NAS kit

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I'd rather keep things at home and just use a VPN to protect the services from direct attacks. Sync at home and there's not much you need to transfer on the go.

In defence of defenestration: Microsoft MUST hurl Gates from the Windows

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Re: To paraphrase The Matrix

As fun as MS-bashing is, I think you're probably right. The heyday of IT making massive new improvements to corporate functions is probably over. From now on, its incremental - hence the scramble to subscription services to prop up revenue. It's no longer viable to continue to spend the vast amounts on new IT when most functions are already there in some form.

Yes, MS missed some new markets which Apple took, but as new features tail off in the phone market, we'll see a plateau that we've seen in desktops. The saving grace for phone companies is people's clumsiness. However, my guess is that even if MS managed to take the market, the profits Apple made are already gone. MS' TIFKAM fiasco is basically a rear-guard action to prevent Android/linux becoming ubiquitous thin-clients which may become fat clients later.

Microsoft investors push for Bill Gates defenestration: report

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>"Any public company's primary duty is to enhance shareholder value" No its not.

> Its to its customers, workers and then its shareholders.

> http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar/

Its also easy to argue that since the company is assumed to be ongoing, on-going value should be maximised, not just a spot share price.

MS' value lies in its web of products which make it difficult to leave. Its hard to inspire great internal product development based on that. Worse, a lot of our global networking is already in place - its hard to continue to make the productivity gains we've made in the past through IT. Now we have the weird scenario of consolidation and virtualisation leading to massive cpu resources going to running multiple copies of the same OS on the same hardware. Why don't we just have better resource management within the OS? Why isn't all the resource management in vmware or hyper-v put into the base OS? Why are we essentially paying OS licenses per (server) application? Doesn't vmware speak to the failure of OS development?

In the olden days a "virtual machine" was something the OS was supposed to provide to the application so that the application thought it was using the whole machine. The whole point of the OS was to manage the hardware and allocate resources to applications. Surely that is the core of OS development. MS have been so busy writing applications they've forgotten the core OS. Linux isn't much better, but at least you can have it for free.

'The NSA set me up,' ex-con Qwest exec claims

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Re: Open verdict

> The irony being that had he 'confessed' he probably would have got out quicker.

Hardly "irony." It seems the intention these days is to make everything so scary, its better to confess than risk a trial. That's what happens when the legislative wants to "send messages" rather than decide on what really is a reasonable punishment for a particular crime. For white-collar crime, where physical danger from the defendant is not problem, physical restraint hardly seems a good remedy.

Plea-bargains corrupt both the legislative and the judicial process.

BitTorrent trialling P2P secure messaging

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Re: But we already have a secure, decentralised NSA-annoying program.

>Why start over from scratch when there is already a piece of software available that does the job fairly well?

You shouldn't, but sometimes marketing demands it. BT has mindshare, Retroshare, whatever its technical merits doesn't have that.

Ideally, BT would join with RS but sometimes egos get in the way.

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Re: This is nothing special

Upvoted, but there is a slight difference to other schemes. There's little need to spend on marketing and torrenters probably have servers running rather than a mac air which switches off after 60 seconds of inactivity.

Probably the best thing to do is offer a bluetooth-like pairing (but with more complexity) so you can configure/accept "friend requests" with easy to remember, but long phrases http://xkcd.com/936/. Also torrenters have slightly more tech know-how or dedication than your average fb user, so they've got a good starting userbase.

The "special" doesn't have to be in the tech, it might just be in the target-market selection and the ability to survive without profit or government interference.

US.gov - including NASA et al - quits internet. Is the UN running it now?

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Meanwhile, back in the Clouds

Companies reeling from NSA snooping revelations are further hit by the realisation by Business that the USA has a government which is intrusive and has banana-republic stability.

If you really want to correct your budget (and yes, we know you really do need to), stop waging wars on people and stuff. I offer a two-pronged strategy: keep the health-care, stop sending your young men to dangerous places. You'll save far more lives using health-care than you'll save by stalking Bin Ladin's roommates and you'll look far more noble.

(That goes for the UK gov too.)

'Modern warming trend can't be found' in new climate study

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Re: Real story

Isn't that the point though?

It's such a complex issue it can't be proved (in a mathematical or operational science manner) which opens the door for all sorts of opinion.

I presume that's why we have "consensus" rather than some more concrete term.

Microsoft keeps Skype content safe from police data slurping - for now

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Too late

There was a time when people trusted companies to do only what the software said it would do. You bought a spreadsheet, it does spreadsheety things. Only viruses and dodgy Russian software sent your data across the internet.

Now everyone is into advertising and tying you into online services. At one level, most people accept the risk, but I don't think many people really trust the big names and the government anymore.

The issue over RC4 is representative - we don't need to hand over data because our random number generator is slightly badly coded.

Valve aiming to take the joy(sticks) out of gaming with Steam Controller

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Re: Good. Very good.

>It's not close to the precision of mouse.

Sometimes precision isn't what's wanted. Its probably more fun to play a driving game with a steering wheel, even if a mouse is more accurate.

You might also have a game which utilises rate of change as an input, rather than end placement. In that case, neither keyboard nor mouse are superior.

I'd still like to see an analogue joystick as your fingers can stick to them without impeding movement, but top marks to Valve for bringing back controllers to the PC. I look forward to a resurgence in 80's and 90's-style games on the big screen. Monkey Island and King's Quest anyone? I'd like to see Wii's Cow Race on the PC. Worms would be good, as would Scorched Earth. The big screen is for simple games with popcorn as an excuse to get together and chat on the sofa instead of sitting silently gawping at the latest unlikely escapades from Hollywood or interminable recaps of who said what to whom on some idiotic unreality show.

UK.gov's e-Borders zombie still lurks under the English Channel

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Re: Just join Shengen and get over with it

What does race have to do with nationality?

California kids win right to delete digital past

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Re: What about the right of American employers to avoid hiring drug users?

> Isn't it Unamerican to repress the freedom of other people? What people do on their own time is none of an employers business.

+1 for irony

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Re: @Sparx

Perhaps the most important lesson is not to absorb substances which impair judgement. I find it astounding that so many people think drinking is trivial. It is common, but it isn't trivial.

I see no particular reason not to favour those who learnt this early on. It's either a parenting failure or a child's failure. In the real world we can't shield children from their own or their parents failures.

A stupid mistake it may be. That is why it is called a stupid mistake. It has consequences.

Bill Gates: Yes, Ctrl-Alt-Del salute was a MISTAKE

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Re: The one key idea...

Billy got his share of bad ideas anyway... "Delete" next to "rename" (not separated from everything) in file manager? Doh!

WD unveils new MyBook line: External drives now bigger... and CHEAP

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NAS vs Thunderbolt

I suspect TB is relatively cheap compared to NAS. The $30 cable is nothing compared to the markup the vendors stick on a TB devices. "TB is expensive" is a load of rubbish when it comes to explaining prices and availability.

If TB is effectively a PCIe extension, where are the TB 6 disk external chassis with cheap sata interfaces?

Apple: Now that you've updated to iOS 7... YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK

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Re: News?

The issue is the large change to the user experience which isn't considered a good one by many users. Had they offered the option to keep the old icon set, there would be fewer complaints.

"the fastest upgrade in history" is little to crow about when there is no option to undo an accidental or unwanted upgrade and there is no convenient "try before you buy."

The apple icons are distinctive - I doubt brand is the issue. I suspect the real reason to prevent going back is that each upgrade makes the older harder less usable, driving further new hardware purchases.

Office 365 goes to work on an Android

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Re: Desperation? What Linux next?

> Sign of desperation, it'll Office for Linux next.

Which will be hobbled. The aim is to do enough to kill off the alternatives without being enough to replace windows.

That was RT too.

These companies have stopped trying to be the best and are concentrating on not cannibalising existing profit centres. If they aren't careful, good-enough will appear from elsewhere.

PEAK APP: After 2013, you'll NEVER again install as many – Gartner

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I get the feeling most app updates are not even bug fixes. They just want to get the app name in front of you in case you've stopped using it. It is just advertising.

USB 3.1 demo shows new spec well on its way towards 1.2GB/sec goal

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The question is...

Why is thunderbolt so expensive and USB cheap if Intel is doing them both?

My guess would be that anyone who needs those high-speeds will probably want a reasonable amount of reliability, not just speed. Will a cheap cable be good enough? For current usage, I've never found my mouse or keyboard or webcam to be too slow. I've plugged my mouse into an apple keyboard USB 1 port and not noticed any speed difference. Most of my TV is SD and that's actually fine too. HD is slightly better but I'm not that bothered.

TB is full duplex, so you can read and write 10Gb/s at the same time, so that's already twice as fast as the next version of USB. Perhaps not too much of an issue if you're just unloading your film collection, but not useful for an external disk array, that's for sure.

I doubt the problem is the tech or the real cost. I suspect the problem is companies trying to profit from clueless Mac owners.

Fanbois shun 'crappy plastic' iPhone 5C

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Re: I for one welcome this new religion

I for one welcome this new religion

The advantages:

1) Don't try to cling to control of schools, seats in the house of lords etc. to perpetuate their world view

I think you'll find the religion you mock was the one which *started* these schools because it views education as important. It also views politicians as susceptible to corruption and has been an important counterbalance to the knee-jerk, soundbite politics which have been destroying our freedoms over the last several governments. If anything, the churchmen in the Lords need criticising for not doing enough to protect the "orphans, widows and strangers in the land."

2) So far at least, not at all bothered by people's sexuality

Nope, not bothered by other people's sexual behaviour. I am irritated by other people ordering me around in terms of what I should approve of, how I raise my children and redefining words to give them new meanings as a form of social engineering, but I'm not really bothered by what they do at home.

3) Absolutely no idiotic dogma about 'the role of women in society'

You mean as the hub of industry and commerce, social work? Worth more than rubies, should be listened to by everyone, worthy of honour? (Proverbs 31:10-31) Perhaps you mean the fact that husbands are to love them to the point of sacrificing themselves for their wives good? (Ephesians 5:25)

4) The religious claims about reality are at least rooted in fact some of the time. The Jesus phone really does exist, for example, which is more than can be said of the usual subject of worship in religious cults.

You think Jesus never existed? You might want to go and have a chat to Dawkins about that.

5) We are still allowed to have a bit of a giggle about the adherents of this religion without them going all po-faced and strutting around demanding respect.

Giggle, giggle if you want to. ;) I have yet to find another philosophical system which can provide a coherent, logical justification for being nice. If you think humans are naturally good, look at Syria and Kenya today; Cambodia, Russia and America in the past; China the UK and pretty much every country. Christianity says that people are made "in the image of God," which implies a great deal of respect. It is the non-christians who suggest that people are just animals.

6) Nobody in this religion yet seems the desire to relieve other people of their freedom or life in pursuit of their religious views.

(Wind history forward a hundred years, and perhaps the religion will have developed to be as tedious as many others, perhaps.

If you read the bible, you'd find it says to tell people why and how God is good and if they won't listen, shake the dust off your feet and move on. Anything else isn't christian. I do notice that a couple running a B&B received death-threats from (presumably) non-christians because they wouldn't specifically support behaviour they disapproved of. Intolerance does indeed appear to be on the rise. You can do as you wish, but don't ask me to support you.

No really, I don't welcome new religions. They tend to be rubbish and far more degrading than the old one.

/grumpy-rant

(I know, it was probably supposed to be a funny, trolling post, but ignorant piety deserves some response, or else it is just an advert for ignorance.)

Leaked docs: NSA 'Follow the money' team slurped BANK records, CREDIT CARD data

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Re: self-evident truths

If it was self-evident, surely it wouldn't need stating?

It was really a straight forward power-struggle with those in power taking advantage of those who weren't and TJ didn't like it.

Nothing has really changed. Certainly in the UK I see greatly increasingly intrusive governmental authoritarianism, where we used to compare quite favourably to the US.

Having given up on any reason for morality, the law and the infinite ways around it are all that's left - and it isn't enough.

City of Munich throws Ubuntu lifeline to Windows XP holdouts

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Re: How does this help?

The linux (and general unix approach) is to understand and fix. Windows is more about the re-install.

Both approaches have merit in certain situations. In either case, you need to be prepared for the solution appropriately.. e.g. time spent to fix, or time spent backing up and determining an appropriate restore point and resetting all the config data buried in the registry.

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Re: How does this help?

Perhaps by enlarging the linux ecosystem, increasing the market for linux, hence the number of devs who can make money off it, keeping the money in the pockets of Munich people which makes them happy and gives them a chance to spend it on local products rather than sending it to the US.

I'm still not convinced that someone not brave enough to go XP->W7 is going to jump at the chance of going XP->Ubuntu, irrespective of whether its a good idea or not.

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Re: Nice idea, but...

> Just try the payment streaming features of the Microsoft Office 2013

TFIFY

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Re: Nice idea, but...

Ha! Who said trolling is a lost art-form?

:D